El estudio de los significados en los procesos educativos. Un reto metodológico

The educational research aims at understanding the experiences gained within the teaching context and providing educators with a structure of knowledge that is theoretical, dynamic and complex so that, through this, teachers are capable of reporting about the educational phenomenon to society. This work addresses the study of meaning and its construction as a result of reflection and theorization of experiences lived inside the educational context. Thus, it presents phenomenology and hermeneutics as a support for educational research in the processes of description and understanding of situations that are empirically experienced in educational environments. Throughout the work, we address a broad discussion about the meanings: their importance, conceptualization, the construction of discourse for their documentation, and their interpretation through phenomenology and hermeneutics.